This rural school house building still standing in section 6 of Polk township at the corner of Rinaker road and Finch road was the Raffurity School District 91. It was the first school district organized in Polk township. A part of the district was also in Chesterfield, Bird and Western Mound townships. The old school house is on the James Wheeler farm and had been in miscellaneous use as a farm storage building following the closing of all rural school districts during the consolidation of the rural schools in 1948. Jim Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "G Frazier" <macoupincounty@earthlink.net> To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [ILMACOUP] one-room schoolhouses still standing > Send it to me, Lloyd. I can put it up and see if someone can identify it. > > Thanks. > > Gloria > > At 06:52 PM 9/30/2009, you wrote: >>I was recently in county. To my surprise, there is at least one >>one-room schoolhouse still standing. On Finch Road in Polk township. >>The school doesn't appear in the 1932 USGS map that includes >>schoolhouses. Does anyone know what the school is called? I will send >>a picture to the website if asked. Complete with water pump and storm >>cellar. I peeked inside. Its pretty rough but the blackboards are >>still there. How long before chalk is just a memory? >> >> >>Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at >>http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message